LABOUR SHORTAGE
COMMISSION IN SYDNEY. URGENT DEMAND FOE APPRENTICES. (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY, June 27. Before the Labour Shortage Commission, a costume manufacturer, referring to the difficulty of securing apprentices, said he would willingly pay five shillings weekly above the award rates right through the slack and busy times to good apprentices. He had had to turn customers away owing to the difficulty in getting la\bour. Mr Ross, a bottle manufacturer, declared that he could double his trade if the labour was available. One witness declared that the real cause of the shortage was thresh girls marrying.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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99LABOUR SHORTAGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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